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Netflix series about Central Park 5 renews ‘mob mentality’ accusations

June 11, 2019 at 4:16 p.m.

Once celebrated by many, Linda Fairstein, the former prosecutor turned mystery book author, now fights for her professional life and reputation for her leading role in the 1990 prosecution of...

How ‘Network’ anchor Howard Beale made it to the White House

June 7, 2019 at 1:19 p.m.

Can there be a more revealing piece of prophetic art for our times than "Network"? I used to think the audacious 1976 Oscar-winning movie about a TV anchor who becomes...

A supporter of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange participates in a protest outside Westminster Magistrates' Court in London, where there was a short hearing in Assange's extradition case on May 30, 2019.

Who is a journalist? Don’t let the government decide.

June 4, 2019 at 4:29 p.m.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's indictment under the Espionage Act is so controversial that at least two of his prosecutors argued against the decision to indict. Significantly, we know this because...

Then-Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., right, and Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, of Maine, in Washington in 1994 after the Senate voted to push a $30 billion anti-crime bill past a Republican procedural roadblock.

Joe Biden should tout his role in the 1994 crime bill — not hide from it

May 31, 2019 at 5:38 p.m.

When you stand as tall in the early polling as Joe Biden does in the currently teeming multitude of Democratic presidential candidates, you become everybody else's target. Biden knows this....

President Donald Trump speaks in White House Rose Garden from behind a lectern bearing his summary of the Mueller investigation on May 22, 2019.

Why Trump prefers to discuss impeachment, not infrastructure

May 31, 2019 at 4:22 p.m.

And how was your "Infrastructure Week," Mr. President? Ha, ha. Yes, we just had another one. But various distractions — many of them flowing from President Donald Trump's Twitter fingers...

An Oct. 12, 1974, baiduhai article by George Bliss about a woman named Linda Taylor who became known as "welfare queen."

Chicago’s ‘welfare queen’ still colorizes our poverty debate

May 31, 2019 at 4:17 p.m.

In 1976, as California Gov. Ronald Reagan struggled to gain traction for his first presidential campaign, he told a story to a lunch crowd in North Carolina that would help...

An "adversity score" will be added to SAT college entrance test results, rating applicants on environmental factors meant to offer admissions officers a glimpse into a student's socioeconomic background, the College Board said this month.

SAT ‘adversity score’: Let’s mend it, don’t end it

May 31, 2019 at 4:24 p.m.

As a sign of our changing times, hip-hop legend Dr. Dre provided my favorite story in the recent college admissions bribery scandal. Fabulously wealthy rap producer and performer Dre, whose...

Migrants, mostly from Central America, line up to board a van bound for a processing center in El Paso, Texas, on May 16, 2019.

Immigration for the ‘best people’? For Trump family, that’s relative

May 31, 2019 at 4:25 p.m.

For a man who presents himself as a champion of ordinary people, President Donald Trump's new immigration plan sounds not just elitist but aggressively elitist. That's not all bad, of...

Alyssa Milano’s #SexStrike won’t work, but we need to talk about abortion

May 31, 2019 at 4:18 p.m.

Alyssa Milano's new call for a "sex strike" to protest anti-abortion laws may not have nearly as much success as her early push for the #MeToo movement did. But, I...

Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, with their newborn son, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, at Windsor Castle on May 8, 2019.

Baby Archie, Britain’s newest royal, has already taught us an important lesson about race

May 31, 2019 at 4:20 p.m.

Danny Baker was a highly successful and even "brilliant" British radio host in the eyes of his BBC bosses, until he tweeted a photo that wasn't as innocently cute as...

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